>If the mailer or the shell running it produces any STDERR/STDOUT output, then a >snippet of that output will be copied to SYSLOG. The > remainder of the output is discarded. If problems are encountered >in sending mail, this should help you to understand and fix them. > > >So you have the STDERR/STDOUT error in syslog.
If you have checked this on your system, it would be helpful to check the differences with my system, where I observe a different behaviour. As I had reported previously in some detail, I spent quite some time trying to figure out what was happening, and the logs were not helpful. For your reference, I just reproduced the problem by temporarily removing the /usr/bin/mail symbolic link. Here is a snippet of the syslog (the same lines appear in the daemon.log): Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Monitoring 0 ATA and 4 SCSI devices Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Executing test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Executing test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Device: /dev/sdb, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Sending warning via /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Sep 15 14:50:42 ala smartd[8193]: Warning via /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Sep 15 14:50:43 ala smartd[8193]: Executing test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Sep 15 14:50:43 ala smartd[8193]: Test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Sep 15 14:50:43 ala smartd[8193]: Executing test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Sep 15 14:50:43 ala smartd[8193]: Test of /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Sep 15 14:50:44 ala smartd[8299]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=8299. Sep 15 14:50:44 ala smartd[8299]: file /var/run/smartd.pid written containing PID 8299 As I ad observed back in August, the logs report that the test mails were successfully sent. In fact, no mail delivery is reported by the mail daemon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
